Posted on 05/09/2019 5:57:08 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Before it was a television show, Grey's Anatomy was a textbook. Published in 1858, Gray's Anatomy (spelled with an "a") quickly became the gold standard in medical illustration, featuring detailed diagrams of everything from the tiny bones in the hand to the internal structure of the eye.
Gray's Anatomy is still in print today, in its 41st edition, but if you open the book up and flip through the pages you might notice something. Or really, the dearth of something: women. And it turns out it's not just Gray's Anatomy that has this problem—almost all medical textbooks are heavily biased towards depicting male bodies.
In 2014, Rhiannon Parker, a researcher at the University of Wollogong in Australia, set out to quantify just how bad that bias actually is. By analyzing more than 6,000 images from 17 anatomy textbooks published between 2008 and 2013, Parker and her colleagues found that only 36 percent of the anatomical images with an identifiable sex were female.
Even more discouraging is the results weren't all that different from a study done in 1994, in which 32 percent of images represented female bodies. "I expected there to be a much bigger improvement on representation," Parker told me.
Not all books were equally biased. General Anatomy, 2nd ed., had the highest proportion of male bodies at 5:1, while Human Anatomy and Physiology, 9th ed. was the only textbook to have the same proportion of male and female bodies. Gray's Anatomy for Students—a condensed version of Gray's Anatomy—has nearly three times more men as women
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Blacks make up 13% of the population yet they appear in 90% of commercials, and usually as the smartest and/or coolest person in the ad.
Coming soon, Gray's Anatomy - Liberal and Transgender Edition. No picture of White men will be allowed...😀
Trannies and LIBS get lots of time in psychiatric and psychological texts.
The real issue here is that between the time when Grey’s Anatomy was first published and 1930, women’s life expectancy was greatly increased. By 1930 women’s deaths in childbirth had become very rare. This was mostly due to advances made by the White male-dominated medical establishment. But don’t say “thank you”. Instead just beef and whine about racism and sexism.
There were pictures in my anatomy class of a very hot white chick in my textbook. It really motivated me.
Especially from ChiCongo...
But I bet she is upset at me for saying she needs a date...
2) Their favorite player either went 0 for 5 or cause an error...
Stupid unhappy libs...
There would be no modern medicine as we know it if not for white men, and young white men.
It’s easier to see the detail using a young, white person.
...so the problems are under the surface.
I sure hate it when you get your x ray and radiography textbooks, and all of the bones and tissue images are from white men!
(Because of course you can tell from those bacterial closeups and skeletons)
The only group that may not be homogeneous is white.
Gray’s Anatomy was not produced in China.
That’s because only real men lead countries [women just flood them with ‘refugees’] and therefore medicine had to target them.
gee... could it be that modern medicine was pioneered by WHITE MEN ?
could there be some reason the whole continent of africa doesn’t have much of a medical program?
And women pics would only be needed for female-specific conditions...it’s a medical book - not a feel-good olio of diversity (except for diseases and anatomical issues)
that drawing discriminates against Americans with disabilities and congenitally attached twins.
My little brother, on a form that asked for ‘color,’ put ‘pink and beige.’ I thought that was so cute.
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